Bill Text: TX SB1640 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Relating to the allocation of enterprise project designations during a biennium.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-06 - Referred to Economic & Small Business Development [SB1640 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1640-Engrossed.html
 
 
  By: Deuell S.B. No. 1640
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the allocation of enterprise project designations
  during a biennium.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2303.403, Government Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 2303.403.  PROHIBITION ON QUALIFIED BUSINESS
  CERTIFICATION; LIMIT ON ENTERPRISE PROJECT DESIGNATIONS. (a)  If
  the bank determines that the governing body eligible to nominate an
  enterprise project is not complying with this chapter, the bank
  shall prohibit the certification of a qualified business until the
  bank determines that the governing body is complying with this
  chapter.
         (b)  The bank may not designate more than 105 enterprise
  projects during any biennium.  Any designations remaining at the
  end of a biennium may be carried forward to the next biennium.
         (c)  The bank may allocate the total number of enterprise
  project designations available in a biennium under Subsection (b)
  among two annual or four semiannual periods so that a nearly equal
  number of designations are available to be awarded in each annual or
  semiannual period.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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